Shade-support



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' SHADE SUPPORT. (Application filed June 24, 1898.) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFI E,

JOSEPH BENZION, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,837, dated April 11,1899.

Application filed .Tune 24, 1898.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOSEPH BENZION, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and, State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shade-Supports, of which the following is a specification.. My invention relates to an improvement in shade-supports for use more especially in connection with combined globes and chimneys which present shoulders upon which the shades rest;

My object is to provide permanent spacingpieces of refractory material, such as asbestos, attached to the chimney or shade and operating to keep them apart, whereby air will pass freely between them and tend to cushion and prevent heating of the shade.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section, on line 1 of Fig. 2, of a chimney and shade, illustrating my improvements in their preferred form, the spacing-pieces being attached to the chimney; Fig. 2, a top plan View of the chimney with the shade removed; Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing a modification; and Fig. 4, a broken vertical section of the modified structure shown in Fig. 3.

A is a lamp globe or chimney having the expanded or globe portion A',contracted chimney portion A and annular shoulder A B is a shade provided with an opening s, somewhat larger than the chimney A surrounded at the under side by a shoulder s'. Cemented'upon or otherwise permanently attached to the outer surface of the shoulder portion A are spacing-pieces t, of asbestos or equivalent refractory material which will not be destroyed by the heat of the flame. I

In the preferred construction the spacingpieces are looped or scalloped, as shown in Fig. 2, to form attaching ends t' and intermediate raised portions t whereby an airpassage t is provided between the attaching ends beneath the intermediate portion. The

pieces are secured in place preferably .by cementing them at the ends t' to thesurface of the shoulder A In practice three or more spacing-pieces are provided and placed approximately equidistant apart aroundthe shoulder to form a suitable support for the shade, which rests at its Serial No. 684,384:. (No model.)

.small that the rush of air through the passages t and across the outer surfaces of the pieces will tend to keep them cool, prevent their being deleteriously affected by the heat, and also tend to prevent the conduction and radiation of heat from the chimney to the shade. The shade rests upon the raised parts of the spacing-pieces only, whereby the area of contact between them is very small, which prevents conduction of heat to any great cxtent from the chimney to the shade by the spacing-piece material.

In the modified construction the spacingpieces t are short flat pieces of asbestos or the like cemented or otherwise firmly secured in place. They are unprovided with the raised parts t and the intermediate air-passages t are not present. The gist of my invention lies in providing spacing-pieces of refractory material permanently attached to the chimney or shade at intervals around the chimney to afiord a free passage of airbetween the chimney and shade, and thus prevent undue heating of the latter, and while I prefer to construct my improvements as shown and described they may be modified in the matter of details 'without departing from the spirit of myinvention as defined by the claims.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination with a globe or chimney formed near its top with an annular shoulder,

and shade having an opening surrounded by 'an annular shoulder to be supported by the and shade having an opening surrounded by au aunular shoulder to be supported by the shoulder on the chimney, of a series of independent spacing -pieees of refraotory material having attaohing surface portions at which they are cemented to one of said shoulders, and intervening portions raised to form airpassages beneath them, and engage the other said shoulder, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOSEPH BENZION. In presence of M. J. FROST, R. T. SPENCER. 

